Amazon will make investments $4 billion in Anthropic, an AI startup based by former OpenAI workers. The massive infusion of capital makes Amazon the newest main tech firm to enter the generative AI race.
Amazon will take a minority stake within the AI builder, the businesses said Monday in separate statements on their respective web sites. Anthropic will develop its personal generative AI mannequin, known as Claude, utilizing Amazon Net Providers as its major cloud-computing supplier and AWS’ machine-learning chips for constructing, coaching and deployment. That mannequin will provide comparable providers to compete with Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
The partnership, deemed as a “strategic collaboration” by Amazon in its assertion, comes because the e-commerce large continues to embrace AI applied sciences. Final week, Amazon unveiled AI-powered updates to its Alexa voice assistant enabling it to interact in “smarter and extra conversational” interactions with customers, Amazon’s units chief Dave Limp stated throughout an illustration final week on the firm’s second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
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